Dark Highway by Lisa Gray Author – 5 Stars
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
ISBN: 9781542021135

I have enjoyed all three books in the Jessica Shaw series. This is the best one yet. Knowing Jessica’s traumatic background as a missing child herself explains her passion for solving missing person cases.

The plot of Dark Highway is twisted and clever involving multiple missing women with flashbacks to their pasts. Although complex, it is easy to follow the characters. I enjoyed the intricacy of the story. There is some background into Jessica’s past and a bit of romantic chemistry with Connor, Jessica’s business partner, that add to understanding her.

The pace never slows as Jessica investigates the cases of four missing women. She is hired by a mother to find her daughter who has been missing for two months. While pursuing the case, she uncovers other similar unsolved missing person cases. Although she is later fired by her client, she can’t walk away and continues to investigate to an unexpected conclusion.

Lisa Gray is talented author. I’m a fan and look forward to more books in the Jessica Shaw series. It is a delight to read books with intelligent and unique stories.

Reviewer: Nancy

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. This book is the third book in a series. Private investigator Jessica is asked to find Laurie's daughter who has been missing for a year. She later finds out their maybe two other missing persons cases similar to Laurie's daughter. This book kept me riveted until the last page. I cant wait to read Lisa Unger's next book.

Dark Highway by Lisa Gray is filled with non-stop suspense as private investigator Jessica Shaw tracks down answers to a missing person case. This is the third book in the Jessica Shaw series and I could not tear myself away from this story! The gripping worry of a missing child is enough for the parents of Laurie Simmonds to hire MAC investigations to try to find their daughter.
Matt Connor has just hired Jessica to work with him as she is preparing to get her PI license. They take the case of the missing artist and begin to find more missing women in the area of the Twenty-Nine Palms highway. When the identity of a body is found in a shallow grave, the case takes a huge turn. What is the link between the missing women and the dead body? Jessica discovers it goes back to a previous generation of fraternity brothers and an event in the basement of their campus residence.
I won't post spoilers, but this was a perfect weekend read. The mystery and trail of clues kept me so engrossed in the story I went to sleep with my Kindle in my hands and it fell onto my sleeping dog. We both jumped up and yelped!
Publication Date: November 19, 2020
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book,

This is a riveting page-turner from the start.
Flashbacks to the lives of several women are meshed into a clever and twisted investigation into a missing girl which takes them all over the Hollywood area from rich to poor, extremes of wealth and arrogance to pain and loss.
Yes, if you stick with the main subplot, you can work out who the killer is, but is still a twisted story with false clues and leads that finally come together in a stunning finale.

Dark Highway is the third in the intriguing and addicting Jessica Shaw series. Jessica is a private eye with a knack for missing persons cases. Her own past makes her uniquely qualified for the work even as she deals with the trauma from her history. When her crush becomes her mentor, Jessica gets drawn into a case of a missing girl.; The girl's mother actually managed to link more disappearances to her daughter even if the police will not listen. Escalating quickly, the case evolves into danger and the past comes back to haunt a lot of people. I figured out the whodunit about halfway through but the story is compelling enough that I had to see how it all turned out. Jessica is an unique and intriguing character with her own brand of flaws. The chemistry she shares with Connor just adds a little seasoning to the story. The ending contained a nice little surprise and Jessica's cases always leave you coming back for more. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from Netgalley.

PI Jessica Shaw has been hired by the family of Laurie Simmonds, who disappeared from the Twenty Nine Palms Highway two months earlier. The police have given up on the search and Jessica and her partner Matt, discover that Laurie is not the first woman to disappear from that same stretch of highway. There appears to be a link between the missing women and some former friends from college, but as soon as Jessica begins to follow the lead, Laurie’s parent unexpectedly call off the search. Why would parents give up on finding their missing daughter? Even if she’s not officially on the case any more, Jessica continues to look for the missing women, determined to uncover the truth no matter what the cost

This was a good mystery.

Jessica is hire to look for a missing woman Laurie who is artist and have been missing for two months the only thing the police found was her abandoned vehicle.

As she and her boss Matt look into her disappearance the missing woman mother Renee give them a possible lead of two other missing women who also last seen on Twentynine Palms Highway which is very isolating.

As you read it jumps from Jessica to Matt as they investigate ,to the missing women and what they were doing before they disappears and to the criminals who doing this you get inside their heads as they go about their life without realizing that they are in danger. I like Jessica and Matt as they work together but I coulda done without their romantic relationship. I rather they investigate while they try to put pieces together which I was enjoying until romance part came. Still looking forward to reading more about Jessica.

I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.